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Summary: CRIN will launch a major global campaign at the UN in New York in mid-October to end inhuman sentencing of child offenders.
We are developing detailed individual reports on states which reveal that laws still allow executions, life sentences and corporal punishment as sentences for crimes committed by children. We believe that one of the reasons why this barbaric treatment of children continues is the lack of visibility of the reality of inhuman sentencing. While it is relatively easy to research the legal frameworks which allow inhuman sentencing, it is very difficult to find personal testimony and/or individual cases. If this campaign is to make a real impact and achieve quick action to stop inhuman sentencing, we need your help NOW. Please send immediately to [email protected] - or tell us where to access - any material which gets across the reality of these violations: personal testimonies, photos, recordings, official reports, statistics, media reports. Full details of CRIN's campaign will be launched on the website on 13 October. CRIN believes that international campaigning alone is unlikely to force governments to move quickly enough to prohibit inhuman sentencing. But we hope that coordination and solidarity – achieving linked campaigns internationally, across regions and nationally – can accelerate change. CRIN’s aim is to achieve a strong international and regional context for progress – and to support national campaigns in any other way we can. Français